Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.